She travelled into Sussex and stayed for a few nights at the inn whither Henry Thresk had come years before on his momentous holiday.

She had a little money--the trifling income which her parents had left to her upon their death--and she began to look about for a house.

By a piece of good fortune she discovered that the cottage in which she had lived at Little Beeding would be empty in a few months.

She took it and before the summer was out she was once more established there.

It was on an afternoon of August when Stella made her home in it again.